Press freedom is the first requirement for sound economic development. Without it, economy will suffer greatly later in time. Because of this, I don't see big economic future in China at the moment. Always fascist governments screw economy by supressing sound criticism. Just look at South Korea and Spain. How their fascist dictatorship spoild economy. No press freedom, no economic future.

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Press freedom is the first requirement for sound economic development. Without it, economy will suffer greatly later in time. Because of this, I don't see big economic future in China at the moment. Always fascist governments screw economy by supressing sound criticism. Just look at South Korea and Spain. How their fascist dictatorship spoild economy. No press freedom, no economic future.]

I know, I know. What you want to say is the you " see big economic future in" India. That's OK with all of us. Why not just say it in a more direct way?

In case people don't know how "free" media paralyzes their governments, let me give an example.

Suppose government plans a project that would benefit hundreds of thousands of people. The project needs little sacrifices from 1000 families.

Assume you are one of the families and assume you are willing to sacrifice a little for the good of the community.

Among 1000 families, 990 are willing to sacrifice a little, including your family, 9 families will wait and are willing to sacrifice if every family is willing to.

The last family refuses to sacrifice for whatever reason. If this family refuses, the 9 families will refuse too, this would lead to 100 families refusals. In this case, are you still willing to ? Therefore, one single family can block the whole project that would benefit hundreds of thousands people, and according to "free" media, it is his "human right" and he is free to ignore his obligation to society without being ridiculed.

Why does this family dare to do so? because "free" media is on his side. If government dares to do anything to him, government will be described by "free" media as "inhuman", and god knows how "free" media will sensationalize the issue.

Then government fails to carry out plan, what would f123ing "free" media say? they bash government for failure, which inevitably destroys government's credit.

Do you think under such situation, government will be able to make long term plans? No way!!! What is the future of country without long term plans ? keep going south.

Chinese people have the right to speak up and this is the right that our constitution grants us to use. I am happy, from the bottom of my heart, to see this happening. I hate the people who play politics and treat our powerless people like their slaves ploughing their gardens to feed their tough little son-of-a-bitch. We demand the same right fairly owned by the commoners. I protest the politics taught at the schools to brainwash our children. I want more schools like http://www.uniwiseschool.com/ and http://www.sustc.edu.cn/. I want to see China known worldwide for its real harmony and civilization.

Bear in mind that China is a developing country with more than 1.3 billion populations to feed and limited natural resources to rely on.

First thing to do for any emperors or rulers in any dynasty or during the period of times governed by KMT or CCP is food. Food supply is involved in development of agriculture, famers and rural areas, that’s why each ruler of China knows quite well the notion that with grains in hands, there is no need to panic and why the reform in the last 3 decades started with agriculture with family-contract responsibility system, and the signal of the phased-win of agricultural reform in China was abolishment of agricultural taxes by farmers that existed in operation for thousands of years in China, and the next step forwards will be continuous urbanization to increase the rate of urban population of 51 % in China to the rate 70 at the averaged level in the developed countries.

When our belly is full, our subsequent desire is food quality or food safety. Negative cases of food safety in China are almost as terrible as corrupted CCP officials in front of our eyes and months, and we have n choice but to accept given that you are not rich enough as to own a farm to grow crops, vegetable and raise domestic animals for your own need. Even if you are that rich, the air you breathe, the water you drink are disquieting, in large cities in particular. Take Beijing. In this couple of days, when heavy, acrid smog descended on Beijing, the municipal government described it as "serious pollution, "and the data said it was off the chart by relevant department. Polluted air, water or our environment in general resulted mainly from unbalanced development at the cost of ecology due to local officials’ being anxious to achieve quick success and instant benefits. And how to make economic construction, development and urbanization sustainable should be on the agenda of government leadership. Stable growth, adjustment of constructor should not be an empty talk, especially in terms of food safety.

When our belly is full, what we are dreaming of is a partner, someone to marry to give offspring to carry family line forwards, which goes harmony with one Chinese saying that goes the desire for food and women is part of human nature. With one opposite your sex to marry, you have a family of your own; with many a family to form a community; our society builds up generation by generation. To support your family and keep it going, you are in want of a job, and thus, employment ranks the second place for rulers of developing countries like China. When you are employed with social security or insurance of various sorts to cover when you are in urgent needs, your next endeavor must be a house of your own. Unfortunately, ordinary Chinese are burdened with the rocketing housing price in China like a giant mountain. (In Chinese context, without a house of your own, you are far from being a trustworthy husband; or else your marriage is called the ‘Naked’ one.) In the last 5 years, Chinese government has failed to curb the rising house price as it promised, and it seems that the more measures taken, the higher the housing prices are. With administrative interferences like the house purchase quota policy in effect in the first tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, migrant workers and those who have no ‘hukou’ or resident registration are discriminated when it comes to having a house of their own. Yes, indeed, property developers are stifled, and the housing price rises not as quickly. But the result of it is stagnation that government denies. If the land policy or land finance policy by local government is not changed or abandoned, it’s impossible for central government to keep the house price at a ‘reasonable’ level. Domestic consumption has been pushed forward, to a considerable degree, by real estates, and the desire for a house never dies down, especially when urbanization process in China has been in progress, which suggests that the rate of 8% GDP growth is guaranteed for the next 2 or 3 decades if the reform goes on.

Even the feudal emperors were aware of the saying by the Sage that the people are the most important, next is the state and the least cared is the ruler in regard to keeping the kingdom in order. CCP should go on its fight with corruptions of its members, especially those high ranking officials with the institutional improvement being the key. Without sound system to supervise with the only ruling party, it’s not viable to fend off dishonesty and bribery. It’s equally impractical to hold back corruption without media surveillance, which makes sense for free press.
Officials Property report systems in China should be worked out as the first step towards the clean government. CCP should learn from countries or regions like the US and Hong Kong in prevent of corruption.

Weibo or online supervision by internet users played a significan
t role in establishing transparent and responsible government, and will continue doing so in political reform in China. With millions and millions of netizens from all walks of life, corrupted officials like ‘Uncle Watch’, ‘Uncle House’ ended up in jails.

Justice of law and press surveillance is also essential for clean government and transparency. Lawyers and correspondents who are engaged in relevant cases or exposures should be protected should they stick to law and ethics.

i think it is a good phenomenon, i hope it can normally happen in china ,wherever beijing shanghai or guangzhou, everyone has right to express him or herself .such behavoir should be toleranted , and be protected by public .people should be fearless to speak out ,to protest .

I don't look down upon the poor, however, if you compare the two pictures on this web page it's not hard for you to find the two pictures obviously stand for two groups in china---the well educated and the unemployed. What I mean is that the former must start the demonstrations initiatively while the latter must be hired to do the job.

I think a lot of words could be saved if half of the people on this board actually have access to what people in China are saying. When you carry a discussion based on assumptions you'll never run out of things to say.
This is not by any means specific to TE of course, comment boards in China frequently go into the tens of pages too when discussing issues relating to lack of freedom in the west.

I absolutely support southern weekend which is the best media or newspaper in China at least most people thought. We never want CPC down, however, 50 cent group must get out! They said all bullshit and change the turth of the affair. As I concern, 50 cents will betray the government and the country if any nation invade us in the future. I totally regard them as the anti- Japan group during Sepetember. They just irritable and greedy. Most people in China do not support the behavior of the riot of anti-Japan parade due to the requirement of Japanese goods that we need. The young cynic never concern the consequence of their misbehavior which hurts our nation. It is the love of my country that I can not stand the conduct of 50 cent. They just bully the normal citizens who have no capacity to protect themselves and act as a dog to the man who has the power. If it is possible, plz give us freedom on the internet and do not use 50 cent any more. They destory the relationship between citizens and government.

Some of our Chinese posters. as usually, like most good CPC sycophants, have a totally warped understanding of West.

1) The West is ruled by corporations? In both the US / UK it never explicitly mentions who it should be ruled by. The US Constitution does not mention anything about democracy. Its a Republic, found in part by slave owners. So they set the bar pretty low. Despite what many people think, US Presidents rarely talk democracy. In his Cairo speech, Obama only mentioned democracy once, and it was a passing reference. The UK is a Constitution Monarchy, with what essentially is a parliamentary dictatorship. No Act of Parliament is Unconstitutional in the UK.

2) If you actually look at the Chinese Constitution its a very high minded document, which the CPC just ignores. While the US government is dominated by Corporations as they say, how about China which is supposed to be a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, when many of its legislators are wealthy businessmen, far wealthier than MPs in the UK or Congressmen in the US. When it comes to hypocrisy nothing beats the CPC.

3) As for free media. Corporate domination of the press? What is wrong with that. As if China is not dominated by corporations. Yes they are, even more so. Chinese journalist can literally be bought to write glowing adverts to any company. At least the silly "corporate" media in the West is loyal to one paymaster, his boss. At least you know where his loyalty lies ultimately. In China you never really know. Who is paying him?

4) Maoist are not given a voice in the West, therefore the West is less free. Why would the West, give a crap about what Maoist say, when only a small % of the West are farmers (in the single digits). Even your beloved Marx, would consider them irrelevant. There is one democracy where the Maoist have a much stronger voice than even China, and its the most hated of democrazy, India. As for Maoist not getting jobs, maybe not as journalist, but there are alot of Maoist in the university system in the West.

5) Basically media is not free and dominated by corporate interest when its anti-China. That is what they are getting at. So if the Socialist Worker and other Marxist Leninst newspapers are criticizing China then the must also be controlled by corporate free media. Really? I find the typical arguments used by Chinese posters and their Western sycophants that its only right wing anti-communist corporate media bashing China, well its not. Take some time to read the Communist Press.

Capitalism's Brutal Comeback in China

"But, in distinction to other Trotskyist organizations, we thought that the Chinese masses might still be able to push the leadership to move further forward toward socialism. We believed that as long as a chance for this remained, even if unlikely, it would be irresponsible to call for political revolution, which is, in essence, civil war — the forcible expulsion of the bureaucracy won at a potentially very high and bloody cost to the workers.

Today, however, we believe that the possibility no longer exists of peaceably altering the leadership's course, which already has terribly eroded the workingclass advances of the revolution and is clearly and directly leading to their fundamental reverse. A political revolution — a revolt that overthrows and replaces the government, in this case the ruling CCP bureaucracy — is necessary. And given how far along is the reinstitution of capitalism, this political revolution must also be accompanied by aspects of a social revolution — a metamorphosis in basic property relations that changes the class basis of the state. "

Well luckily for China, the West is capitalist and not socialist, or they will be sending arms to China to lead a revolution.

6) When one talks about corporate media in the traditional sense, its largely print. But because of the multitude of owners, competing with each other, and many are only in media, its competitive, and alot more "free" than in China. But most people don't read newspapers, but watch TV. Because TV in most Western countries, outside the US, its usually dominated by a state broadcaster. just like in China. The only difference there is usually only 1-2 corporate networks as its main competition. IN the UK its ITV, France Canal+, Canada Global/CTV, Germany-RTL. In fact large democracies like Indonesia/India have much more competitive TV industry than the West.

People in the West are "brainwashed" not because of corporate media, but because of a lack of choice in the broadcast media. The likes of ITV / France Canal+ more or less follow the editorial line of the state broadcaster. In print media its very diverse, but how many people read newspapers anymore?

You confuse many problems just as ztoa789 does.Both you and ztoa789 try to use one side's(China,US,or other western countries) flaws to prove that the other side's(China,US,or other western countries) are rubbish or totally wrong.
Frankly speaking,both you and ztoa789 are very extreme,ztoa789 says China how well now,you say China how bad now.
Imagination can't take the place of reality.

Thank you for a nice post. Even though it seems long the way you itemize make your post well organized.

From your 3) "In China you never really know. Who is paying him?"

I would think everyone knows who is paying him. The forever glorious and correct CCP. Even the bribes to him/her are knowingly acquiesced by the dear CCP, the ultimate and supreme upholders and servants of the common Chinese people, as a payment for his/her conscience.

"The forever glorious and correct CCP"? CCP also don't agree with yours.All goes through the motions.You know,I know,CCP know,everybody know.You can fool yourself,but Bismarck888 is a foreign Muslim.He is very diffcult to understand that.

Don't fool Bismarck888.His image of China will further be distorted by yours.

The one area where the CPC is indifferent, is where the editorial standards are the weakest is business reporting. Is the reporter being bribe to write that piece praising a company? Or not write something at all.

90% of the journalist in China aren't in a position where they can write stories critical about the CPC. What does investigation in the pollution have to do with the rule of the CPC, very little. Or story about a face cream? While the West is dominated by corporate media, we know a typical newspaper owner in the West won't accept his reporter being "bribed" with gifts to write a flattering review of a product. The CPC propaganda units don't particularly care about this.

Thanks for the link which is more optimistic than my previous blanket condemnation.

Investigation of pollution can readily lead to organized/grass-root political activism. Thus it must be tightly controlled, because any form of grass-root activism can go out of hand, i.e. can turn against the Party.

Maybe I am being too critical on CCP and have distorted China's image as a result. So let me try to redeem myself.

The blue banner in the picture of this article says "Free China". Those people who hold the banner would have been executed with bullets between their eyes during the time when I grew up in China. In that sense China has made great strides from the lowest possible starting point. That does not say much but seems important to some people.

When our Maoist fellow posters are talking about the monopoly of newspapers in the "West" (actually they mean U.S.) by big corporations, they probably know nothing about it and exactly are not talking about the "West".

Many printed media in U.S. are losing big money and have given up publication, i.e. Newsweek has stopped printing since the beginning of this year. Many mid-size and even large metropolis only has one local newspaper and some even have none.

What these Maoist posters actually refer to is the phenomena in Hong Kong and Taiwan where there are still dozen of newspapers (a very high readership ratio per western standard) printed respectively. Beijing tries to increase their influence by wooing the readership of pro-Beijing newspapers but so far failed (in fact there is big uproar after Taiwan's Apple media was sold to media which is alleged of "Dye Red").

Speaking of controlling newspaper by big corporations, almost every 3-yr old kid in Hong Kong knows that no China-based corporations will or no local big companies which have substantial investment in China dare place advertisement on anti-Beijing newspapers in Hong Kong.

Media in the "West" may be controlled by big corporations, but nobody from D.C. dares demand every newspaper in the entire country to republish an editorial as their own like the CCP Propaganda Chief just did.

The problem is like alot of people here, you don't actually refute again of my points, but just give opinion, ansdassume its true. Did I point out China's flaws, yes. But most of the time, 60% of the time I spend defending the West and explaining how Chinese people misunderstand the West. Is that wrong?

None of what I say is false, alot of it is true. Wealthy legislators, corrupt journalist. I did not even spend time calling people brainwashed or Chinese journalist, propagandist. I said 90% of the Chinese journalist don't get involved with too much with the propaganda department, because let's be frank, large amount of the stuff that journalist do ahve nothing to do with politics. Someone has to write product reviews, life style article, cooking tips, accident reports, weather reports, classified, business reports. Go look in a Western newspapers, how much of it is devoted to politics?

I also give an excerpt from a Socialist newspapers to explain how Communist in the West view China. Its clear they particularly like the CPC, and call for its bloody removal. As I said China is lucky, the West was not socialist.

The problem is like alot of people here, you don't actually refute again of my points, but just give opinion, ansdassume its true. Did I point out China's flaws, yes. But most of the time, 60% of the time I spend defending the West and explaining how Chinese people misunderstand the West. Is that wrong?

None of what I say is false, alot of it is true. Wealthy legislators, corrupt journalist. I did not even spend time calling people brainwashed or Chinese journalist, propagandist. I said 90% of the Chinese journalist don't get involved with too much with the propaganda department, because let's be frank, large amount of the stuff that journalist do ahve nothing to do with politics. Someone has to write product reviews, life style article, cooking tips, accident reports, weather reports, classified, business reports. Go look in a Western newspapers, how much of it is devoted to politics?

I also give an excerpt from a Socialist newspapers to explain how Communist in the West view China. Its clear they particularly like the CPC, and call for its bloody removal. As I said China is lucky, the West was not socialist.]

Bis, why do you suddenly have such a high opinion of the "Communists in the West"? Certainly, the CCP doesn't! What the CCP should watch out for is what the Chinese people think. If it not careful, it could be thrown out too. "Communists in the West", or their Chinese followers, can't do that. Last time they tried, they were almost totally exterminated by Chiang KS-- Only to be saved by a home-grown "margarine" Marxist. I would watch out for home-grown revolutionaries instead.

You are wrong.
I never talk about the greatness of the system in China.
What I am trying to do is exposing the side that authoritarian media tries to hide from the people.
You talk like media and journalists are from other planets and will not work for their own power (over information and public opinions).
have you realized the Yin side of so called "free" press ? Who do you think caused the widespread financial problems in West ? governments? If so, what is so great about the universal value that routinely put idiots into governments.

The home grown variety wouldn't be there today if it was not for the Soviets occupying Manchuria. Or they would not have started if it was not for the Cominterm. i know you want to feel all patriotic and all, but in the eyes of the Communist Party of China, your input as a non-Communist Party members means nothing to them. Zero. Nada. So does my opinion and the Chinese posters who are not CPC members. According to Party regulations, those Western CP members can actually attended CPC meetings, something you can't do.

As for the Chinese people, it will take a long time before the CPC is overthrown, because of China's size. The Manchus held on for 120 years of famine, rebellion, civil war. In all these events the underlying current was over population. That is one reason why the CPC is still keeping the one child policy. Secondly, there is no opposition.

You wrote "Do you like to see a documentary film about the corruption in West?"

I really enjoy historical period China films... I then usually research what was put forth in the film to evaluate its accuracy.

Documentary films regarding corruption, in either the West or East, are usually one-sided to the extent of being misleading. Don't forget that I live in the West now where freedom of speech is prevalent. They are really free to say almost anything. They are not necessarily honest or responsible. Freedom of speech without responsibility is misleading.

There is no ‘absolute’, ‘abstract’, and ‘universal’ democracy or freedom at all. Quite to the contrary, the concept of democracy or freedom varies from time to time, place to place and from nation to nation.

Can that be the identical democracy or freedom to be enjoyed by billionaires from Wall Street and slum dwellers though both of them are living in New York? Can that be the equal democracy or freedom to be shared by the US president or leader of Hamas though both of them are elected by people who have the right to vote? Can that be the equivalent democracy or freedom to be endorsed to gays or lesbians whose countries are located in different continents though their appeals are the same? Can that be the matching democracy or freedom to be offered to slaves 100 years ago or the black-skinned NBA players though both of them share the same ancestors?

When you are poor with no food to feed on, your democracy or freedom may be a bowl of rice or a piece of bread. When your belly is full with sufficient money to sustain your being, your democracy or freedom may be a sexual partner to satisfy your human needs. When your parents are not able to finance your education, your democracy or freedom may be a plead for a school of any sort. When your parents’ pocket is thick, your option may be Yale or Princeton university. When you have someone who understand you by your side, your democracy or freedom may be a vote to elect who will govern, and when you have someone to govern but not to your own will you’d be desperate willing to set up an organization to let him down and vote for someone else. When you have no arms to defend your backyards, you’d like to get some at any costs. When you have plenty of guns you’d prefer a ban on them. When you feel fooled by the 1 %, your democracy or freedom may be an action to occupy Washington. When you are elected to be mayor of the city, your democracy or freedom may be a cite-clearing. When you are not skilled enough to make a decent life your democracy or freedom may be a dream of becoming rich overnight. When you are as wealthy as Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, your democracy or freedom may be philanthropy through which to feedback the money you have earned to the society.

Do as Romans do when you are in Rome, and fight for different ‘democracy ‘ or ‘freedom’ in different places during varying period of time with specific ends by a diversity of groups of people.

What you are in desire of depends on what your social-economic class status stands in. and both democracy and freedom should have boundaries.

I agree to most of what you have said. Yeah, freedom consits of various human needs of which people need different kinds in different times. And actually the requirement of our needs is higher as time passes.

Democracy and freedom is cherished and pursued by nations all over the world, especially by developing countries nowadays as they are in desperate want of development to shake off poverty.

Democracy and freedom should be defined specifically to refer to what you want and what you want to express and how to express, which is ‘ specific’ or ‘concrete’ democracy and freedom. During the Dark Age in Europe, democratic appeals for freedom were to free from Catholic churches that ended up in setting up Church of England instead. In 18th century, northern American colonialists fought for democracy and freedom with their end to be independent of the rule of Britain. In China, democratic movement was aimed at to realize Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s doctrine of Three People's Principles (Nationalism, Democracy, and the People's Livelihood) before 1949. after 1949, in mainland China, democracy was to establish and strengthen the new power with supports of freedom of speech from all walks of life. Unfortunately, democracy and freedom of speech was annihilated in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, in Cultural Revolution in particular within or without the CCP. When the chaos were over, democracy and freedom in mainland China was to ensure effective implementation of policies and correct the wrongdoings during the Cultural Revolution. Right now, democracy and freedom in China is to turn China into a country ruled by law rather than by an individual person to make sure that everyone is entitled to be free to have its voice heard. Freedom of speech for a collage graduate may be a decent job; for a migrant worker, not to have an arrear of salary of payment; for a newly married couple, an affordable house; a baby girl or boy, safety milk powder; so on and so forth. I don’t know what the exact petition of Southern Weekly is for apart from an abstract ‘democracy’ or ‘freedom’.

Fantastic photos. The guys holding Mao signs do not seem to have much faith in their product.
I have seen more enthusiasms from people holding 'Cheap Carwash' sign, but maybe it is just that hourly wage for walking sign in Toronto is much better.

Those Maoists, they are serious people and they hold their "ideals" seriously. This may be an inappropriate analogy: think about how serious the skin-heads or the KKKs can be. Those Maoists, they are serious.

But, hey, the country of China has moved away from Maoism, for now. The Maoists, in general, are here to provide comic entertainment for people, both in and outside of China.

According to what they claimed in their websites, they are also harassed by the police. One of their strong backers, Bo Xilai, was detained. They used to at least have the liberty to sing Cultural Revolution era songs in Chongqing. But now they lost it. Moreover, Mao's grandson -- their icon -- is becoming fatter day after day. Judged by his speech, Mao III looks like getting Alzheimer at such young age (maybe Karma).

They were also used to have a paradise -- North Korea (I always wonder why they don't emigrate there en masse) -- but now even Kim III toyed with knockoff Disney figures.

Anyway, unlike what they say that the Southern Weekend does not deserve freedom of press, I strongly defend their freedom of BS in this forum.

You better be careful about bringing up this "aboriginal issue" in Canada. Many First Nations in B.C. oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline which will ship dirty tar-sands to China and many Canadians are not happy about the CNOOC takeover of Nexen.
Just saying!

Who give the power(Censorship,brainwash) to editors or media's bosses to decide that what is wrong and what is right? refuse or accept some articles which can been published in media? the GOD?

Not only the journalists,editors or the meida's bosses have the right and freedom to speak or publish somethings in media.In the name of Press freedom,a group of people(journalists,editors or the meida's bosses) rob and kidnap public freedom and right in media is also another dictatorship.

Basically I don't agree with yours.It is fact that meidas have more freedom and rights in press etc.in the western than do in China altough I don't think the western medias are "free medias".Some criticisms from the western medias are also good,very good for us,at least,it can give us some inspirations in reforming our systems,why we refuse to absorb some good experience and measures from the western or other countries such as USSR,Russia,Brazil,Japan etc.?
The flaws in the westen medias can not prove that China govrment's is right or better. China does need have a comprehensive reform.The key is that we shouldn't be superstitious in any other countries' experience and measures,many things we have also are good or better.

I have to admit you don't know much about the West. And I am frankly sick and tired your childish tirades about corporate media. In much of the Western world outside the US, most people watch state media most of the time. How can they blame the government? Until about 30-40 years in most Western countries the broadcaster were all government run. The news programmes by privately run ITV don't differ much from BBC. Is it ITV influencing the BBC. Its most likely the other way around.

Outside of India, newspaper circulation in most democracies is declining rapidly, hell its even declining your beloved China. The People's Daily only has a circulation of 2 Million now. Its whee corporate (private) control is great in the West, but also most competitive.

Like most silly posters here you have rather faux-socialist way of looking at things. Does the media blame everything on government. You have been watching way too much Fox News. The West is not America got that, in most of the Western world, the broadcast media is still state run.

The same could be said of China, now one of the most unequal countries in the world, where the very rich actually are legislators. You people are typical Communist, when you can lie and distort reality. As long as people are pro-China, they could be exploiting the working class and you wouldn't bat an eye. Please spare the faux socialist NS against the rich will you.

It is very obvious that TE also has a censorship.Who are the censors in TE? Who can give a examinational criterion(censorship)to refuse or accept some articles which can been published in TE?You or me or editors or the boss of TE? Certainly I am sure,if the boss of TE tell the editors,I don't want to publish some people's,the editors are very difficult to refuse their boss.

I has never seen an article written by a Maoist, Why? who can explain to me? although I don't support some Maoists' viewpoints.

Everybody including Maoists have the right to speak and publish their articles in media.The question is that who is the boss of media and who is controling the media?

I must say you confused censorship with quality controlling.It's like the one that mixed up murder with execuation. Maoists definitely can also post and comment below this article and other places on the economist.com. On the other hand, Maoists' article cant be formally published on the front page of The economist,which is not due to the censorship, but the quality controlling. The editors do have right to reject any article that make nonsense. The QA procession is a general regulation in content-provider industry. The QA stantards are not only admitted by editors/managers/monopoly，but also admitted by intellectuals/college/community/society. With regard of censorship, it's the suppression between the gov and the media, which means the abuse of power, which means gov betrayed their society and people, instead of serveing them.

I only give a example such as Maoist's,not all.What is the "The QA stantards" ? who own the final right of interpretation? The bosses say some are high-quality,so they must and have to be high-quality,even they are actually rubbish?

"With freedom comes responsibility" a well-known quote. This is taught in American elementary schools as the teachers try to inject a sense of responsibility to the young kids.

Of course the quote reflects a balance between "freedom" and "responsibility" instead of anarchy.

When will the Chinese government use this argument, or similar arguments, as reasons?

Why the whole country can not be governed by "Rule of Law", the Chinese Constitutions, the Chinese "laws"?

For those posters gloating in the self-gratification of how much China has progressed under the forever glorious and correct CCP leadership, take a look at how the Chinese progressed OUTSIDE of China, and take some humble pills.

I totally agree with yours.
In addition,China need some institutional innovation,instead of following outside of China simply.for example,a public,high-transparency, non-private controled censorship to protect our real freedom.All the censors' qualification also should be examined and Supervised by public at regular or irregular intervals.
Learning from all kind of political systems from communism to capitalism,from former Soviet Union to the United States,don't refuse any good experiences and measures.

There are still dark places in china where technology not getting into, freedom of press is gaged, but as awareness increases, realisation of honorable living increases, so will be the voice against oppression.

"If you are Chinese, if you have your parents or grandparents, go ask them how much they are paid now and how much were 9 years ago. If you are not Chinese, go do some simple calculations on how much you will get by 10 percent average increase for 9 years on 1,5oo RMB 9 years ago."

Do you mean the Chinese are given old age pension of almost 3,500 RMB today? Does your neighbour Mr.LI really gets that much?
What a liar!.
TE reports quite different story in the following report.

That is the live that all Chinese could have had if it was not for Mao and CCP. Many more Chinese would be still alive now too.
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Do you know thousands of Hong kongers are living in cage now?
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Quite funny that no pro-democratic people there give a damn.
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Now imagine there are 28 million people in Hong Kong, instead of 7 million, Hong Kong would be no better than Thailand.
Had China had only 3 hundred million people, China would be much much much much much much better.
Ignorant!!!